= There was a silly incident. =
= I'm almost ashamed of it. =
= I was covering an accident on the freeway. =
= The police officer told me to move my car, so I moved it. =
= He told me I hadn't moved it far enough and ordered me off the interstate.
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= It was way the hell out of the way of the scene. =
= I didn't think he had any right to do that. =
= They just picked me up, dragged me through the grass and put me in the
back of the police car. =
= I had all sorts of burns. =
= To this day, I don't think they would have done that to a white woman
reporter. =
= I felt at that moment the fear that black people must have felt thirty,
forty years ago, when they were traveling the roads in the deep South. =
= I felt very alone. =
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